CVS Caremark Earnings: Generic Drugs Bolster Bottom Line

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At the company's PBM business, sales inched up 0.1% as higher volumes and drug-cost inflation were offset by new generic offerings, which are a mixed blessing for the industry as the low-price treatments hurt the top line but lift margins. Processed …
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Daratumumab Receives Breakthrough Therapy Designation from US Food and …

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Breakthrough Therapy Designation is a program intended to expedite the development and review of drugs to treat serious or life-threatening diseases in cases where preliminary clinical evidence shows that the drug may provide substantial improvements …
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Sharp Rise in Emergency Department Visits Involving the Sleep Medication …

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… visits in 2005 to 19,487 visits in 2010. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) report also finds that in 2010 patients aged 45 or older represented about three-quarters (74 percent) of all emergency department …
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Milestone Events Reaching New Heights for Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

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Families of SMA funds and directs the leading SMA research programs to develop a treatment and cure for the disease. The successful results and progress that the organization has delivered, from basic research to drug discovery to clinical trials …
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